What's the difference between pls_integer and binary_integer?

Question

I\'ve inherited some code which is going to be the base for some additional work. Looking at the stored procs, I see quite a lot of associative-arrays.

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Answer 1

Another difference between pls_integer and binary_integer is that when calculations involving a pls_integer overflow the PL/SQL engine will raise a run time exception. But, calculations involving a binary_integer will not raise an exception even if there is an overflow.